HALWA

HALWA

Ingredients:
100 grms plain flour
1 ½ cups sugar
½ cup ghee
1 tbs broken cashew nuts, fried
1 tsp lemon juice
a pinch of cardamom powder.
orange colour little.

Method:
Adding little water to the flour, make it like chappati dough.
Pour 1 ½ cups of water in a basin. Put the dough in water to soak
For about ½ an hour. You can add more water if necessary.
Mix this with hands gently, so that milky extract comes from the dough. Do like this till you get a small amount of spongy dough.
Strain the milk through a fine mash or cheese cloth.
Keep the mixture undisturbed for 8 to 10 hours.
Pour out the clear water, which comes to the top carefully.

Put a wok on fire, add the sugar and ½ cup of water.
Stir till one string consistency is reached.
Add the colour and the lime juice.
Dilute the sediment and pour in the boiling syrup.
Slow the fire and stir constantly till it becomes thick and transparent.
Add ½ the ghee and stir till it gets absorbed into halwa.
Pour the rest of the ghee and stir again till it gets absorbed.
Stir constantly till it leaves out the ghee and becomes a thick ball like mass. Remove from fire, add fried nuts and cardamom powder.
Mix for a minute or so, and pour on a greases tray.
Cut into slices when cool.

This method gives you a soft, smooth silk like halwa which literally
Will slide down your throat.